Annie Jump Cannon (/ˈkænən/; December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development...
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The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within...
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Harvard Computers (section Annie Jump Cannon)
Annie Jump Cannon. The women were challenged to make sense of these patterns by devising a scheme for sorting the stars into categories. Annie Jump Cannon's...
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Anne Sullivan (redirect from Annie Sullivan)
certificate was Johanna Mansfield Sullivan but she was called "Anne" or "Annie" from birth. She was the eldest child of Thomas and Alice (Cloesy) Sullivan...
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nebula in the southern constellation Musca. It was discovered by Annie Jump Cannon and Margaret W. Mayall during their work on an extended Henry Draper...
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instructed several notable astronomers and physicists, including Annie Jump Cannon. Whiting was one of the founders and the first director of the Whitin...
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same albedo as the surrounding terrain. The crater is named after Annie Jump Cannon, an astronomer who classified 300,000 stellar bodies. By convention...
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second-most abundant element, B; and so on. Later, her colleague Annie Jump Cannon reordered the classification system based on the surface temperature...
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Mary E. Byrd (1849–1934), American educator and cometary observer Annie Jump Cannon (1863−1941), American astronomer who cataloged stellar spectra Robin...
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Wilmington Conference Academy, a prep school. During this period Annie Jump Cannon, a prominent astronomer who pioneered stellar classification, graduated...
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Harvard system is a one-dimensional classification scheme by astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, who re-ordered and simplified the prior alphabetical system by Draper...
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Yalow Gloria Yerkovich 1994 Bella Abzug Ella Baker Myra Bradwell Annie Jump Cannon Jane Cunningham Croly Catherine East Geraldine Ferraro Charlotte Perkins...
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her career." At the Harvard Observatory, Leavitt worked alongside Annie Jump Cannon, who also was deaf. Pickering assigned Leavitt to study variable stars...
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two female astronomers, Cecilia Payne (voiced by Kirsten Dunst) and Annie Jump Cannon (voiced by Marlee Matlin), and the obstacles faced by women scientists...
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UK, for contributions to physics by a very early career physicist. Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy awarded annually for outstanding contributions...
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H. Cannon (1859–1896), American Mormon leader Ace Cannon (1934–2018), American musician Aileen Cannon (born 1981), American judge Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941)...
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (category Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy)
accomplished earlier in the century by Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. However, with Payne's PhD, women entered...
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Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild...
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internist, Secretary of Health and Human Services (Massachusetts) Annie Jump Cannon, 1884 – studied physics and astronomy at Wellesley, astronomer, developed...
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of woman computers, notably Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, and Annie Jump Cannon, classified the spectra recorded on photographic plates. By 1890,...
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Laura Kreidberg (category Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy)
CYCLE 1 GO observing programs with the James Webb Space Telescope. Annie Jump Cannon Award, American Astronomical Society 2021 Paul Hertelendy Lecturer...
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Antonia Maury (category Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy)
at the Harvard College Observatory. Antonia Maury was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1943. William Wilson Morgan, one of the developers...
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of photographic plates. He also, along with Williamina Fleming and Annie Jump Cannon, designed a stellar classification system based on an alphabetic system...
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T42-46 class 100-meter sprint in 17.01 seconds and jumped 3.14 meters in the F42-46 class long jump. She retired from competitive track and field in 1998...
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Yalow Gloria Yerkovich 1994 Bella Abzug Ella Baker Myra Bradwell Annie Jump Cannon Jane Cunningham Croly Catherine East Geraldine Ferraro Charlotte Perkins...
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stars in the southern hemisphere was published by Annie Jump Cannon and Pickering in 1901. Cannon used the lettered types of the Draper Catalogue of...
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Habitat for Humanity crew for the rebuilding of the house of family friend Annie Mae after it had been destroyed in a flood the previous month. On December...
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